New Innocence - A Poem

new innocence? is it possible for new and innocent to sit side by side?
does innocence imply a pre-innocent period that exists until it is lost?
once lost, how can innocence ever be regained?
is innocence even that important?
remember how we couldn't wait to lose our innocence? who decides what is innocent?

who is innocent? who is capable of understanding a means to regain innocence once lost?
is that even possible?
who hurts innocence? who kills it?
who keeps us from keeping innocence? who? and once new, does it immediately start down the path to old?

can new exist only once and for a second? seems that new occurs in cycles.
that things become old but become the grounds for new.
seems that new springs from old, seems new borrows from old.
seems like dreams exist to remember how to be new.

can the leaves of spring remember the colours of autumn? they will get their turn.
will the fruit remember the flowers?
does the calm know about the sleepless nights?
does green know white? it exists for at least this reason.
to rush back to you is to return to innocence.

i dream of new encounters.
i forget the old ones except maybe the effort of the plantings.
there is golden light around you.
the warmth comes with closeness on the coldest night.
with you innocence is new again.

by Blasting Songbirds